I was just having a look through my Dropbox when I stumbled across the majority of my retro stuff I had to part ways with when I got the 'happy' news that we were going to have a baby.

Here's my link have a skeg at it. Sorry some pics are upside down. The Nintendo 64 is particularly painful for parting with. My favourite console ever. USA model. RGB modded for superior picture (there's a pic of Mario 64 running with composite cable and then true RGB cable), inserts removed so plays JPN games natively and replaced the analogue for GameCube replacements while not perfect were better than the slack wobbly gooseberry fool fest they were.

Also that white Saturn was pretty fecking sweet too. Mod chipped played all regions and back ups. 4mb memory expansion. Nights 3D controller.

My super famicom mint boxed console and game pictures other than Mario World are missing which is a bit of a bummer.

I had to give up my babies for the sake of space and money. What about you? Do you have something that you wish you had kept hold of? Why did you part with it? Perhaps did you ever make a silly trade? (I swapped Mario Kart 64 for Diddy Kong Racing back in the day )

Mostly N64 and GameCube stuff. Off the top of my head Conker's Bad Fur Day, Paper Mario, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and Skies of Arcadia Legends.

On the flip side I made double what I'd paid for Secret of Mana when I traded it in at funnily enough the very same Gamestation I bought it from (£39.99 vs £80.00) and similarly I doubled my money on Chibi Robo recently at CeX (I paid £20 sealed in box and got £40 odd back for it).

Although I'm sure some of the complete in box NES games I had would have brought a decent price nowadays too.

Pattybean wrote:(I swapped Mario Kart 64 for Diddy Kong Racing back in the day )

Sounds like a great trade to me!

I've only ever traded in/got rid of two games, and one of them I regret - Klonoa Beach Volleyball for PS1. It was the only PS1 game I owned (now I also own MGS1, so I've owned 2 PS1 games in my life) and now I really want to rebuy it. I need to do some ebaying at some point.

Unfortunately when I was a skint school pupil and student, I've sold great collections of games and accessories including a Megadrive, SNES, N64, PlayStation and Dreamcast - basically anything pre 2004 (when I got my first full time teaching job).

However, with increasing numbers of grown-up commitments, I'm finding I'm flogging stuff that I would have otherwise collected, including games that I have bought updated versions of (e.g. I'm flogging my Zelda Collector's Edition Promotional Gamecube disc on ebay currently, along with some other stuff).

I was just having a look through my Dropbox when I stumbled across the majority of my retro stuff I had to part ways with when I got the 'happy' news that we were going to have a baby.

Here's my link have a skeg at it. Sorry some pics are upside down. The Nintendo 64 is particularly painful for parting with. My favourite console ever. USA model. RGB modded for superior picture (there's a pic of Mario 64 running with composite cable and then true RGB cable), inserts removed so plays JPN games natively and replaced the analogue for GameCube replacements while not perfect were better than the slack wobbly gooseberry fool fest they were.

Also that white Saturn was pretty fecking sweet too. Mod chipped played all regions and back ups. 4mb memory expansion. Nights 3D controller.

My super famicom mint boxed console and game pictures other than Mario World are missing which is a bit of a bummer.

I had to give up my babies for the sake of space and money. What about you? Do you have something that you wish you had kept hold of? Why did you part with it? Perhaps did you ever make a silly trade? (I swapped Mario Kart 64 for Diddy Kong Racing back in the day )

In 1995, our village decided to open a youth club again. There'd been one years before but it had died out, and everything belonging to the old youth club was in a cupboard in the village hall. On the first week of opening, we looked in that cupboard as a group to see if there was anything worth keeping. Among the ping pong tables and deflated footballs, there were two old gaming systems that we'd not seen before. We plugged them in, they worked for a bit, then they stopped. A few thumps couldn't get them going again, so I volunteered to chuck them away.

And that's the story of how I personally threw two Vectrex consoles into the bin.

The only console I've traded was my N64 for the original GBA. Probably not a great deal in hindsight, but I wasn't overly keen on the N64 at that point. I still have my SNES and brick GB though, maybe I'll grace the retro weekend topic with some pictures one day.

Lovers of retro hardware, do not read the below

I once threw a working Atari VCS (with games), BBC Micro and Atari ST (all with games, mainly pirated) away at the tip. I just didn't want them cluttering up the place.

Death's Head wrote:The only console I've traded was my N64 for the original GBA. Probably not a great deal in hindsight, but I wasn't overly keen on the N64 at that point. I still have my SNES and brick GB though, maybe I'll grace the retro weekend topic with some pictures one day.

Lovers of retro hardware, do not read the below

I once threw a working Atari VCS (with games), BBC Micro and Atari ST (all with games, mainly pirated) away at the tip. I just didn't want them cluttering up the place.

Such a loss Automation disk 97 (Dungeon Master, Oids and 3d Pool) accounted for about 6 months of my life.

I regret it, but my Dad said (because it was a very early Birthday present (he did this to buy me things that I wanted I think, I'm thankful)) it was either that or wait. What a great decision it was though. DS was awesome.